AWS will follow customer demand, when it comes to funding stuff like this. If there's enough customers unable to do what they want to do on Graviton, especiall

AWS will follow customer demand, when it comes to funding stuff like this. If there's enough customers unable to do what they want to do on Graviton, especially bigger ones like Netflix, they'd likely fund the work. Same would likely be true if they had evidence lots of customers used FreeBSD on their platform anyway. They wouldn't release architecture that couldn't run Linux, for example. > they seem to have more than enough cash if they're making their own CPUs. That's actually a cost saving exercise for AWS. The OpEx cost of a rack is a very large part of the cost of running cloud services. CapEx, staffing etc. makes up only a tiny fraction of it. The Graviton Arm chips are cheaper to run by quite a bit than Intel or AMD chips of comparable performance. Any expense spent in designing and producing their own chips is easily and quickly paid for by the OpEx savings.